FPS drop in games

[Jacob Ling]

I have a brand new computer with a 3090 B550F 16 Gigs of ram 3200 MHz Ryzen 7 2700x and when I play games (especially valorant) I get 170 fps exactly but then randomly it drops to exactly 85 fps. I have the latest drivers, it is not thermal throttling but I can not figure out why.

[RONOTHAN##]

It's probably a CPU bottleneck. With a 3090 you need basically the fastest CPU around to keep up with that GPU, and while the 2700X is a pretty decent CPU, it doesn't have the single threaded power needed to keep up with the 3090.

[RAS_3885]

Do you have any sort of v sync enabled? 

[Jacob Ling]

On 9/20/2021 at 12:58 PM, RONOTHAN## said:

It's probably a CPU bottleneck. With a 3090 you need basically the fastest CPU around to keep up with that GPU, and while the 2700X is a pretty decent CPU, it doesn't have the single threaded power needed to keep up with the 3090.

I ran a bottleneck calculator and it says 0.01% bottle neck any other ideas?

[RONOTHAN##]

2 minutes ago, Jacob Ling said:

I ran a bottleneck calculator and it says 0.01% bottle neck any other ideas?

Those bottleneck calculators are usually worthless. Trust me, a 2700X is not up to the task of running a 3090 at anything but 8k or very optimized 4k titles. For valorant, you want something faster, a 5800X would be a great option if your motherboard supports Ryzen 5000 

[Jacob Ling]

1 hour ago, RONOTHAN## said:

Those bottleneck calculators are usually worthless. Trust me, a 2700X is not up to the task of running a 3090 at anything but 8k or very optimized 4k titles. For valorant, you want something faster, a 5800X would be a great option if your motherboard supports Ryzen 5000 

Thanks